13 livres semblables à Les Habitants des bois
Loin de la foule déchaînée
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues,…
Thèmes communs : Triangles, Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, England
Le Maire de Casterbridge
Like many of Hardy’s novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge is set in the fictional county of Wessex in the mid 1800s. It begins with Michael Henchard, a young hay-trusser, drunk on rum, auctioning off his wife and baby daughter at a village fair. The next day, overcome with remorse, Henchard resolves to turn his life around. When we meet Henchard eighteen years later, temperance and hard work have…
Thèmes communs : Wessex, British and irish fiction, Drama
Sous les arbres verts ou, La chorale de Mellstock
Under the Greenwood Tree is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy's most gentle and pastoral novels.
Thèmes communs : Wessex, British and irish fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Emma
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a…
Thèmes communs : Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, England, Social life and customs
L'Âge de l'innocence
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but…
Thèmes communs : Triangles, Drama, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction
Femmes et filles
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
Thèmes communs : Social classes, Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, England
Sans issue
No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867.
Thèmes communs : Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, Drama, Social life and customs
Le Trompette-major, et Robert son frère
Set against a backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, this is a novel about a young woman and the three very different suitors who vie for her hand. Two of the men are brothers involved in the fighting, one an easygoing sailor, the other an honest and diffident trumpet major, the third suitor being the cowardly son of the local squire.
Thèmes communs : Wessex, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction
Le Voyageur sans commerce
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
Thèmes communs : British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature
La Maison de l'Abîme
Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world.
Thèmes communs : Social classes, Manners and customs, Drama, Social life and customs
Le Retour au pays natal
The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.
Thèmes communs : Wessex, Social life and customs, Romance
Shirley
Shirley, published in 1849, was Charlotte Brontë’s second novel after Jane Eyre. Published under her pseudonym of “Currer Bell,” it differs in several respects from that earlier work. It is written in the third person with an omniscient narrator, rather than the first-person of Jane Eyre, and incorporates the themes of industrial change and the plight of unemployed workers. It also features…
Thèmes communs : British and irish fiction, England, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction
La Rivière coupable
B..melodrama is perennial and the craving for it is perennial and must be satisfied' T. S. Eliot ('Wilkie Collins and Dickens') Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here. All proceed through a series of dramatic scenes to a climax that in one case at least is literally explosive. The…
Thèmes communs : British and irish fiction, Classic Literature